Motivational Quotes

Mind

Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

- Steinbeck, John

Best Quotes about Mind

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Kempis, Thomas

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Descartes, Rene

The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

Loos, Anita

Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.

Phillips, Maureen

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Freud, Sigmund

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

Shakespeare, William

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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Breton, Andre

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You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Hilliard, Nicholas

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We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop

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The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

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Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Horace

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Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.

Harman, Willis

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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing. Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. (Protons are also nothing) Fifty billion electrons placed side to side in a straight line would stretch across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind.

Lardner, John

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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Hill, Napoleon

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Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Auden, W. H.

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The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Cousins, Norman

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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Madwed, Sidney

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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Seneca

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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

Collier, Robert

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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace